The Dial, Volume 17Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1894 - Books |
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... UNIVERSITY ENGLISH : A SUMMARY CONTINENTAL LITERATURE , A YEAR OF CRERAR LIBRARY , THE . DUTCH INFLUENCE UPON ... UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ENGLISH AT THE ...
... UNIVERSITY ENGLISH : A SUMMARY CONTINENTAL LITERATURE , A YEAR OF CRERAR LIBRARY , THE . DUTCH INFLUENCE UPON ... UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ENGLISH AT THE ...
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... University , Dedication and Inauguration at the . T. A. Clark Italian Novelists , Contemporary . Learning , The " Royal Road to . W. M. Bryant Literature in Preparatory Schools , The Study of . Gertrude H. Mason . 107 • 301 G. B. Rose ...
... University , Dedication and Inauguration at the . T. A. Clark Italian Novelists , Contemporary . Learning , The " Royal Road to . W. M. Bryant Literature in Preparatory Schools , The Study of . Gertrude H. Mason . 107 • 301 G. B. Rose ...
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... UNIVERSITY . Martin W. Sampson . COMMUNICATIONS • Contemporary Italian Novelists . G. B. Rose . The Provincial Flag of Pennsylvania . Francis Olcott Allen . LETTERS OF TWO MUSICIANS . E. G. J. • SIGNS OF LIFE IN LITERATURE . Edward E ...
... UNIVERSITY . Martin W. Sampson . COMMUNICATIONS • Contemporary Italian Novelists . G. B. Rose . The Provincial Flag of Pennsylvania . Francis Olcott Allen . LETTERS OF TWO MUSICIANS . E. G. J. • SIGNS OF LIFE IN LITERATURE . Edward E ...
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... UNIVERSITY . * A year ago the English department of the Uni- versity of Indiana was completely reorganized , and ... University , by Professor Albert S. Cook ( Feb. 1 ) ; English at Columbia College , by Professor Bran- der Matthews ...
... UNIVERSITY . * A year ago the English department of the Uni- versity of Indiana was completely reorganized , and ... University , by Professor Albert S. Cook ( Feb. 1 ) ; English at Columbia College , by Professor Bran- der Matthews ...
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... University work in English , we have been confronted with a peculiar local condi- tion . Sometime ago , Professor Hale wrote to THE DIAL that the students of Iowa University had lit- tle feeling for style . That is true of the Indiana ...
... University work in English , we have been confronted with a peculiar local condi- tion . Sometime ago , Professor Hale wrote to THE DIAL that the students of Iowa University had lit- tle feeling for style . That is true of the Indiana ...
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Page 34 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 34 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 34 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
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Page 33 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils.
Page 145 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Page 34 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Page 145 - Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 34 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 219 - But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr. Waller taught it; he first made writing easily an art; first showed us to conclude the sense most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together that the reader is out of breath to overtake it.